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rawest

/ˈɹɔː.ɪst/

rawest is the superlative form of raw.

Meaning of raw

Adjective

raw (comparative rawer, superlative rawest)

  1. (of food) Not cooked.
    • There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.
    1. Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
      • I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.
  2. Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
    • Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was...1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63
  3. Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
    • ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  4. New or inexperienced.
    • a raw beginner
  5. Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
    • a raw voice

See all 22 meanings of raw

Questions about rawest

What is rawest the superlative form of?
Rawest is the superlative form of raw.
How do you pronounce rawest?
Rawest is pronounced /ˈɹɔː.ɪst/.

Words near rawest in the dictionary

  1. Rawdons
  2. Rawe
  3. rawed
  4. rawer
  5. Rawes
  6. rawest
  7. rawhead and bloodybones
  8. rawhide
  9. rawhided
  10. rawhider
  11. rawhiders

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